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‘I wish I could invite my boyfriend to my parents’ for Christmas’

David Leuenberger assis à la table d un café avec un verre d eau et un livre.

This content was published on Oct 2, 2017 David Leuenberger dreams of getting married and one day having children, but under current Swiss law, same-sex couples do not have these rights.

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College students turn to foreign universities for doctorate titles

This content was published on Oct 1, 2017 This means that technical colleges must team up with universities to allow students to achieve this recognition of educational attainment. Writing in the Horizons magazineExternal link of the Swiss National Science Foundation, Claire Gervais, a professor at the Bern University of Applied Sciences, labelled the system as “dishonest”. She complained that many professors at universities only…

The city of Rüschlikon as seen from Lake Zurich

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Wealthy Rüschlikon, the Alpine ibex and teen media habits

This content was published on Oct 1, 2017 These are some of the stories coming up on swissinfo.ch for the week beginning October 2, 2017.

A sign points the way for asylum seekers

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Germany deports more asylum seekers back to Switzerland

This content was published on Oct 1, 2017 The last few years has seen a rising number of people transiting through Switzerland in order to claim asylum in Germany. But the German authorities appear to have had enough. In the first eight months of this year, the number of deportation requests (1,875) back to Switzerland has risen 70% on 2016. Switzerland is also…

A painting depicting a rural scene in England

Culture

Swiss gallery to return Nazi era looted Constable painting

This content was published on Oct 1, 2017 The council of La Chaux-de-Fonds, in canton Neuchâtel, had previously refused to repatriate the painting in 2009, but instead put a plaque next to the painting acknowledging its ownership history. In 1942, “Dedham from Langham” was one of 60 valuable paintings seized by the pro-Nazi French Vichy regime from John and Anna Jaffé, who were…

Culture

Swiss watches for the mega-city Tokyo

This content was published on Oct 1, 2017 Young Swiss Luca Orduña put all his eggs in one basket. At the age of 22, he went to Japan for the first time and set himself up in business.

Basel youtuber with interviewees near river

Culture

Basel boy conquers YouTube

This content was published on Oct 1, 2017

Montreux Jazz festival songs preserved in DNA

This content was published on Sep 30, 2017 Two songs recorded at the Montreux Jazz Festival have been preserved using an innovative technology for encoding data in DNA strands.

Woman holding book looks direct to the camera

Culture

The special objects young immigrants hold close to their hearts

This content was published on Sep 30, 2017 A Chilean photographer who came to Switzerland as a young woman has used her experience to portray the modern face of young migrants.

Swiss ambassador to the UN, Valentin Zellweger

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Human Rights Council wraps up with Swiss resolutions

This content was published on Sep 29, 2017 The 36th session of the UN Human Rights Council ended with the adoption of two Swiss-led resolutions on the death penalty and transitional justice.

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